Lectella vs OpenThanks
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lectella
This social networking app focuses on facilitating real-life meetups for adults in New York. It allows users to discover individuals open to meeting, propose specific plans, and organize confirmed arrangements. The app emphasizes safety with verified profiles and tools for respectful connections.
- Discover people open to real plans
- Send and respond to meeting invitations
- Suggest changes to meeting details
- Organize confirmed plans
- Verified profiles and safety tools
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Lectella is a meeting-first social app for adults in New York who prefer real plans to endless texting. Discover people who are open to meeting, see how they like to meet, and send a thoughtful Invite to Meet. Choose what you’d like to do, when to meet, and where to go. When an invite is accepted, your Meeting Plan keeps the details in one place. • Meet people open to real plans • Send and respond to Invitations to Meet • Suggest changes to time or place • Keep confirmed plans organized in one place • Use verified profiles and safety tools designed for respectful connections MEMBERSHIP Lectella is free to join and browse. A Membership subscription is required to send Invitations to Meet. Opening and responding to the invitations you receive is free. Extra Invite packs add invitations for members. New subscribers may be offered a free trial on the 1 Month plan. Subscriptions renew automatically and can be managed or canceled in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://lectella.com/legal/terms Privacy Policy: https://lectella.com/legal/privacy Lectella is for adults 18+. Currently available in the United States and Canada.
OpenThanks
This app facilitates personal expressions of gratitude. You can send private thank-you notes via various methods, with recipients deciding whether to accept them. It encourages genuine appreciation and allows for optional sharing of accepted notes.
- Send private thank-you notes
- Recipients accept or decline
- Share accepted notes publicly
- Optional nonprofit cause
- Friday gratitude reminders
- Sign in with Apple, email, or phone
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OpenThanks helps you thank the people who make your life better. Write a short appreciation and send it by email, text, or link. The recipient reviews it and chooses whether to accept. Nothing is shared publicly until they accept. WHY OPENTHANKS • Personal thank-yous, not performative posts • Recipients decide what to accept • Keep notes private, or share accepted ones with the community • Optional nonprofit cause on your profile • Gentle Friday reminders to thank someone who helped you HOW IT WORKS 1. Write a thank-you note 2. Send the link by text, email, or copy/paste 3. They accept — and kindness can travel Sign in with Apple, email, or phone. Built for real gratitude.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: OpenThanks at none against Lectella's 6. OpenThanks also leads on ads (none vs shown) and update cadence (every 4 days vs fortnightly). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Lectella sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per 7 days. OpenThanks asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Lectella against 5.0 for OpenThanks. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 10 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Lectella ships an update fortnightly, OpenThanks every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lectella | OpenThanks |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 53 MB | 14 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lectella LTD | OpenThanks |
Customer experience
Lectella
OpenThanks
In-app purchases
Lectella
- Membership · 1 Week$19.997 Days
- Membership · 1 Month14 Days trial$39.991 Month
- Membership · 3 Months$89.993 Months
- 3 Invitations$9.99
- 10 Invitations$29.99
- 25 Invitations$59.99
OpenThanks
No in-app purchases









